On Thu December 7 2006 07:57, Chuck wrote: > > ok. i am definitely having problems with this new opteron machine we have... > > only thing i can see remotely close to an error or warning msg is this from > the kernel: > > i get this message as early in the boot process as when it decompresses to > begin boot: > > "kernel mapping table up to 100,000,000 at 8000:d800" > > this is a linux 2.6.18.3 kernel > > 2.6.18-vs2.1.1-gentoo-r1 > > could this be a disk controller address? > > > last week the machine died twice both with disk errors, the 2nd time it > actually scrambled a few sectors in a lvm partition in the website vserver. i > had to run shred on the partition to fix it. > > just this morning, initially i had no warning something was wrong until i > tried to execute any command and got back 'command not found'. turns out the > running system could not access the disk array in any fashion. a power cycle > brought it back to normal and it has been running ok for the past few hours. > > in case it helps > hardware is > 2xopteron dual core 265 > tyan 2882D motherboard > 4gb registered ram > 2 sata2 drives in raid1 configuration. >
There is a patch in 2.6.18.5 that mentions sata drives. Haven't tried it yet. There are several distro's that are planning to include 2.6.18 in their end-of-year releases. It has been getting a lot of maintenance recently. > could i have a setting wrong in the kernel? > Like in cockpit error? Mike _______________________________________________ Vserver mailing list Vserver@list.linux-vserver.org http://list.linux-vserver.org/mailman/listinfo/vserver
